Huntsville gazette., 1887-10-15
SOUTHERN GL.EANlNGS.

Tor CraWIeu out OF the pU. JOHn'S TiSeI
where it flows into the sea and started
out to find shelter among the sand dunes.
He was captured alive by fishermen, and
will be sent to the sub tropical exhibition.
Two ''honest farmers" of Kentucky are
the latest vic tins of misplaced confidence.
The unsophisticated grangers were offered
600 worth of works of art resembling
genuine money of the United States SO
closely that other grangers might be con-
fdently expected to take it as good cur
rency. The price of the ornamental paper
was S7G0, and the honest farmers paid
$500 down and deposited $500 in the ex-
press office. When the box supposed to
contain the art treasures arrived, oaly a
common brick was found in it. The dis
appointed agriculturists are suing the ex-
press company for the $780,
The official returns from thirty-thrss
counties in Tennessee with the balance
semi official, give a majority of 25,77s
against the prohibitory amendment. The
chairman of the State Liquor Dealers
Association, now claims majority of 36,-
900.
A four-legged chicken was born near
Lexing ton, Miss, one day recently.
The oyster trade on the Mississippi coast
is enjoying a great boom.
Virginia winter apples are scarce, and
are selling high.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has con.
firmed the death sentence of Bill Patterson,
who helped Turner kill Jennie Bowman.
One of the boasts of an interior town in
Florida is that it can show up more people
to meet trains than any place of its size
in the South.
Tlo vi OfT do 6f harHapn Misc
is being urged to take steps looking to
placing boat in the river at that place.
The new Y. NJ. c. A. Hall at Atlanta,
Ca, is one of the handsomest buildings in
that city. 1t cost over 100000.
The editor Of the Brookhaven (Miss.)
Neaos says: "The only thing that keeps
our spirits up now is to sit in our window
and sing out: 'Ah therep as the girls pass
down the avenue"
A negro, sentenced to five years. impris-
onment for larceny, committed suicide in
the court room at Chattanooga, Tenn,
when sentence was pronounced against
him.
The grand jury recently organized in
Gwinnett County, Ga was composed OF
sixteen Methodsts, six Baptists, and one
liberal, yet it ignored more complaints
than any grand jury the county ever had.
Tallahassee, the capital of Florida, is now
dry. The licenses have all expired, and
the Prohibitionists have influenced the
County Commissioners not to renew them,
so that it is impossible to get drink of
whisky in the city.
A safe in the store Of Walter Bros, at
Dover, Tenn, was broken opeh a few
nights ago and robbed of $4,000. Three
suspicious-looking men, who have been
hanging about the place and who disap-
peared after the robbery, are suspected,
and the officers are after them.
Two men were fishing on the Kinche-
foone creek, in Georgia, few days ago,
when one got a bite and saw his cork go
down like a shot. He began pulling in,
and with the assistance of his companion
succeeded, after good deal of difficulty,
in bringing out and killing turtle that
weighed two hundred pounds.
Joe Edwards, Of Richmond, Va, can
STAY under water one minute and thirty
seconds. During his life Joe has gotten
more than one hundred bodies out Of the
waters around Richmond. He has been
there since 1851, and for eighteen years
has been in business around the wharves
In the winter Joe opeus oysters; in the
summer he dives.
The County Jail of Coffee County, Ga,
vas burned to the ground a few nights
ago. A negro, who was incarcerated
therein, attempted to burn out a passage.
The fire bafied him however, and burned
the entire building. His charred body
was found in the ruins.
John Hester, a negro, went opossum
hunting near Atlanta, Ca, few nights
ago. At the same time his wife went to
preaching. They locked up tho house,
leaving two children, aged six and eight
wears, prisoners within. When they re-
turned they found the house burned down
and the charred remains of the children in
the ruins.
Twenty miles Of the Powell g Valley
(Tenn.) railroad has been let. Dirt was
broken last Saturday, and the con tractors
now have five hundred men at work. The
road runs from Knoxville to Cumberland
Gap, distance of sixty-fve miles.
A difficulty arose a few days ago be.
tween Dudley Handley and Alex Richard
son, two of the colored deck crew of the
steamer Helena, which resulted in Rich
ardson being shot and instantly killed.
The tragedy was enacted while the boat
was taking on freight at Fritz's landing in
OTIDbCuQtu SOu4ALN, 4CAA' AAOOA
Richardson, Handley fed into the woods
and had not been arrest ed.
Henry Duke, well-known farmer in
Ballard County, KY, trade d farms with q
gentleman from the adjoining county of
Carlisle few days ago. Thinking he was
worsted in the trade, he wanted to rue it,.
This was refused, and Duke broode1 over
his trouble until he became violently in
sane. Subsequently he assaulted Thomas,
with whom he had f ded, with an ak and
came near killing him. Duke has been
taken to the asylum for tres *ment.
A collision occurred on the Cincinnati
Southern road one mile south of Oakdale,
Tenn, a few days ago, completely wreck
ing both locomotives and throwing about
twenty cars from the track.
E. S. johnson, of Chicago, better known
as the express robber OF Memphis, was set
at liberty in Chattanooga, few days ago.
In 1875 he was arrested at Memphis for an
express robbery, and sentenced to twenty
one years in the penitentiary. He is a very
intelligent man, and during the year 1sS5
willie serving his term, is said to have
framed a bill that has resulted in his lib
erty. The bill, which became law, short
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